Stop flying blind on project profit.
Fintoras keeps the work and the money in one place, so a small team can see which jobs are making money while there is still time to fix the ones that aren't.
Orchard retainer
- Fee
- $18,000
- Cost
- $10,440
- Margin
- +$7,560 (+42.0%)
Status report says on track. Fixed monthly scope and very little rework. The quietest job on the list is the most profitable.
Lumen site redesign
- Fee
- $42,000
- Cost
- $27,300
- Margin
- +$14,700 (+35.0%)
Status report says on track. Finished 30 hours under its estimate.
Kestrel mobile app
- Fee
- $96,000
- Cost
- $107,520
- Margin
- −$11,520 (−12.0%)
Status report says on track. Shipped on the agreed date and the client is happy. It also ran 380 hours over plan, and 210 of those were change requests nobody billed.
Tidewater campaign
- Fee
- $30,000
- Cost
- $28,200
- Margin
- +$1,800 (+6.0%)
Status report says on track. Three extra rounds of revisions used up most of the margin.
Atlas data migration
- Fee
- $54,000
- Cost
- $39,960
- Margin
- +$14,040 (+26.0%)
Status report says at risk. Two weeks late, so the status report flags it. It still keeps 26 cents of every dollar.
Sample data. Five made-up projects with $240,000 of fees between them and a combined margin of 11.1%. Look at the status labels: the one project marked at risk is profitable, and one marked on track is losing money. Pick any of them to see its numbers.
On time is not the same as profitable
Take the Kestrel app from the sample above. It shipped on the agreed date. Every weekly status report said on track. The client was pleased.
It also took 380 hours more than planned. Two change requests added 210 of them and were never billed. Rework after late feedback added the other 170. Contractor and licence costs ran over too.
Nobody added it up until the job was finished, because the hours lived in one tool, the costs in another and the fee in a third. Fintoras keeps them together and keeps this sum up to date as hours and costs come in.
| Kestrel mobile app | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| Fee | $96,000 | $96,000 |
| Team hours | 800 h | 1,180 h |
| Team cost at $75 an hour | $60,000 | $88,500 |
| Contractors | $6,000 | $14,500 |
| Software and licences | $2,000 | $4,520 |
| Total cost | $68,000 | $107,520 |
| Margin | +$28,000 +29.2% | −$11,520 −12.0% |
Sample project with made-up figures.
From task to margin in four steps
Each step feeds the next, so the margin at the end is never a separate report someone has to build.
Plan the work
Set up the project, break it into tasks and give it a budget. See it as a board, a list or a timeline.
Log the time
People track hours against the tasks they are already working on, with a timer or by hand.
Cost it as you go
Every hour is priced at that person's cost rate. Expenses and contractor bills land on the same project.
Read the margin
Fee minus cost for each project, updated as the work happens and not at month end.
It warns you while there is still margin to save
Fintoras checks every active project against its plan. When the numbers drift, it says what moved and by how much.
Spend running ahead of progress
Compares budget used with work completed, and projects where the job will finish if nothing changes.
Hours over estimate
Flags a task once logged time passes its estimate, and shows what that does to the project margin.
Work nobody is billing
Picks out tasks added after the budget was agreed that have no change order behind them.
After launch, you will also be able to ask it questions in plain language.
While the work was under way, Fintoras would have raised these:
79% of budget used at 50% complete. At this pace it finishes at −12.0% margin. It has not lost money yet: cost so far is $53,760 against a $96,000 fee.
Three revision rounds logged against tasks that are not in the agreed scope.
And once the quarter had closed, with nothing changed:
Which projects lost money last quarter?
One. Kestrel mobile app finished at −12.0%, a loss of $11,520. It ran 380 hours over plan and 210 of those were change requests that were never billed. Tidewater campaign was the next closest at +6.0%.
A picture of the planned assistant, using the sample projects above.
Check one of your own projects
Four numbers are enough to find out whether a job made money. Nothing you type here leaves your browser.
Made for small teams who sell their time
A good fit if
You run an agency, a studio, a consultancy or a development shop.
You bill by the project or on retainer.
Your tasks live in one tool and your numbers live in a spreadsheet.
Probably not for you if
You need full accounting or payroll. Fintoras is planned to connect to QuickBooks, not replace it.
You are a large firm with a finance department and an enterprise suite already in place.
Your team builds its own product and never bills a client.
Who is behind Fintoras
Stephen U spent nearly four years in project management and financial analysis on construction and engineering projects valued at $45 million. He is PMP certified and holds two master's degrees.
The biggest challenge for small teams isn't complexity—it's fragmentation. They're drowning in tools that don't talk to each other. FINTORAS changes that. We're building the single source of truth for project success: one platform that shows you exactly which projects make money and why.
Planned pricing, published early
Flat monthly plans sized by team, so the bill doesn't grow every time you add a person.
Starter
$99a month, up to 5 people
Professional
$299a month, up to 20 people
Larger teams
Customfor more than 20 people
Get early access when it opens
We plan to launch by the end of Q1 2027. The waitlist hears first.